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Seminar Leaders
Robert Cummings Neville
Boston University
Dean of Marsh Chapel
Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Yale University; D.D. Lehigh University; Doctorate honoris causa, Russian Academy of Sciences. Robert Cummings Neville writes in the fields of philosophy, religion and theology, and is the author of over twenty books. His thought has been widely written on by others, including the collection Interpreting Neville (1999). Before his appointment to the deanship in 1988, Dean Neville was the Director of the Boston University Division of Religious and Theological Studies and chair of the Religion Department. He was Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has also taught at Yale, Fordham, and SUNY Purchase. An ordained elder in the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, Dean Neville has pastored in Missouri and NewYork. Dean Neville is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and the Metaphysical Society of America, and current president of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. He is currently a member of the Accrediting Commission of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and of the Commission on Theological Education of the United Methodist Church, and he is president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools and (for 1998-99) of the Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Soundings, and Quarterly Review, as well as the Associate Editor for Behavioral and Neurological Articles, The Encyclopedia of Bioethics.
Jaakko Hintikka
Boston University
Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Helsinki. Interests: Philosophy of Language, Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science (including Cognitive Science), Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Philosophy (Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Peirce, Wittgenstein) After a sojourn at Harvard as a Junior Fellow (1956-59), Jaakko Hintikka held professorial appointments at the University of Helsinki, the Academy of Finland, and Florida State University. From 1965 to 1982 Dr. Hintikka was also associated with Stanford University, and in 1990 joined Boston University. Dr. Hintikka is known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, and also as one of the architects of distributive normal forms, possible-worlds semantics, tree methods, infinitely deep logics, and the present-day theory of inductive generalization. He has authored or co-authored over 30 books and monographs that have appeared in nine languages. Five volumes of his Selected Papers (Kluwer Academic) appeared in 1996-2003. Jaakko Hintikka has edited or co-edited 17 volumes and authored or co-authored over 300 scholarly papers. A comprehensive examination of his thought appeared in 2006 as the volume The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka (2006) in the series Library of Living Philosophers. The honors Jaakko Hintikka has received include the John Locke Lectureship at Oxford (1964), the Hägerström Lectureship at Uppsala (1983), the Immanuel Kant Lectureship at Stanford (1985), the Wihuri International Prize (1976), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979-80), and honorary doctorates from the University of Liège (1984), the Jagiellonian University of Cracow (1995), and the Universities of Uppsala (2000), Oulu (2002), and Turku (2003). Most recently, he has been awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy (2005) for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis for modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief.
July 12-16, 2010
Setting
The setting is the comfortable Little Grassy Lodge in the beautiful Shawnee National Forest. The Lodge is part of a larger complex called “A Touch of Nature,” affiliated with Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, which is the institutional host of the Hocking-Cabot Seminar.
Seminar Leaders
Robert Cummings Neville
Robert Cummings Neville writes in the fields of philosophy, religion and theology, and is the author of over twenty books. His thought has been widely written on...read more
Jaakko Hintikka
Dr. Hintikka is known as the main architect of game-theoretical semantics and of the interrogative approach to inquiry, and also as one of the architects of distributive normal forms...read more